They who “feed the world” took her water: PotashCorp launches PR blitz, Beth Norrad leaves Penobsquis

They who “feed the world” took her water: PotashCorp launches PR blitz, Beth Norrad leaves Penobsquis by Tracy Glynn, June 27, 2012, nbmediacoop
The house had been without water for three years but Norrad was reassured multiple times by a government official that the water would be flowing again through the taps of the house in no more than six weeks. Six weeks came and went and there was still no running water. … “My sister and I took every cent we had and paid cash for the house, trusting we would be getting all but the usual down payment back when the mortgage was in place six weeks later. But no bank will give a mortgage on a house with no water,” says Norrad. The sisters soon discovered that the government had been promising the return of running water to several Penobsquis homes for years. “Just ask the other residents how many times they heard, ‘you’ll have water by the spring, you’ll have water this summer, you’ll have water by the fall,’ and of course they believed their government, the first several times. Then it became a joke, ‘yeah, what year will we have water again? We were devastated when we realized that we had been deceived by our own government,'”

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